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by veyron 15y ago
What is the mobile direct link? iPad safari is unsupported: "Dynamic Views in Blogger require the use of a modern browser, and are not currently supported on mobile devices."
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by veyron 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683584
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by veyron 15y ago
Have you tried using tcl/blt?
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by veyron 15y ago
I'd recommend Aquamacs (which is integrated pretty well with OSX): http://aquamacs.org/
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by veyron 15y ago
If you are not bound by a gag order, could you go into more detail about your situation? I'm curious about how OSHA responds to worker complaints ...
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by veyron 15y ago
What exactly happened with regards to the claims of excessive temperatures in the Amazon warehouse (which seems to have led to this recent episode) FTA, OSHA claimed the heat issues were resolved December 14 2010, but I'm pretty sure there
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by veyron 15y ago
Last remark on the issue: Let's all agree that, before saying something like "a portmanteau, if you want to get technical", you are 100% sure that it is correct. Maybe that should be in the HN guidelines ... I only brought up this issue be
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by veyron 15y ago
"brunch" is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch, and refers to a meal that occurs in the late morning in lieu of separate breakfast and lunch meals. This satisfies the 3 conditions: - constituents must be words "brunch" is a combination of
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by veyron 15y ago
Can you give a citation for that definition? (had to dig out a dictionary :/) According to OED (oxford english dictionary) a portmanteau is: "A word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their meanings.
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by veyron 15y ago
it's not a portmanteau, because a portmanteau is a combination of two real words whose meaning draws from both constituents (and it's not clear what real word that ends in 'icious' that is relevant to this context) According to OED (oxford
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by veyron 15y ago
"structuring compensation as base / bonus could also alleviate this" <-- I am not convinced. If you knew that your bonus was a percentage of your salary, the only way that it would motivate you is if your salary was low (or if your bon
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by veyron 15y ago
For private companies with no plans to sell, ideally it would be an arrangement where the engineer receives shares (in a C corp) or is written into the operating agreement as a partner (in an LLC or LP) but a profit sharing agreement would
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by veyron 15y ago
The reason why business types see engineers as cost centers is because engineers have positioned themselves that way. Engineers pushed for higher salary in lieu of the variable upside. What engineers really need to do is to put more skin i
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by veyron 15y ago
The problem seems to stem from the fact that most people are presented with paltry-sounding offers from places like google. As is mentioned in many of the response here, it seems that the guy probably quoted total compensation. However, pri
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by veyron 15y ago
I have no clue why people are obsessing over 250K. If you care about money as a programmer, you are better off working at a hedge fund. My programmer friends at hedge funds (all between 22 and 26) are averaging 500K salary with 100K bonuse
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by veyron 15y ago
http://safekidzone.com/ being tested in california iirc
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by veyron 15y ago
"Tracy was last seen at 7:45pm PDT on Wednesday evening at the Whitehorse Bar located in San Francisco." <-- does the bar have a security camera, and if so has anyone reviewed the footage from that night? "After leaving the bar, we beli
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The New Economics of the Music Industry(rollingstone.com)
1 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
"people just kind of assume that everything Google or Apple does is to spite the other one" <-- people are trying to apply a traditionalist business view to the field of technology, for which the concept of a zero-sum game manifests its
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Prototyping with Python(veyronb.wordpress.com)
7 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
Updated the title :)
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On NIH Syndrome for software used in financial markets(veyronb.wordpress.com)
10 points by veyron 15y ago|2 comments
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On Latency(veyronb.wordpress.com)
3 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
go ahead. my email is intransigence123@gmail.com
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by veyron 15y ago
I seem to be having issues accessing this page. Can you post a screenshot / explain what exactly you are doing?
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by veyron 15y ago
If you want to reply to a post for which the "reply" link is missing, click on the "link" link and you will see a reply text box :)
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by veyron 15y ago
You need to put two newlines to show items on separate lines for example: abc\ndef shows up as abc def and abc\n\ndef shows up as abc def
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by veyron 15y ago
Is median income the right measure to use here? This leads to weird anomalies like how is Bergen County is 1% but New York County (Manhattan) is 4%?
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by veyron 15y ago
If you are going to go that route, I'd point to Brealey and Myers "Principles of Corporate Finance".
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by veyron 15y ago
Nope the best place is the The Pulp and The Bean in brooklyn. Ask for the Dieci :)

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